What do you mommas do to keep ur lo from falling asleep? I am running out of ideas!

My baby is 3 weeks old and I am able to keep him up for an hour to hour and half. During that time, I feed, change him, talk, tummy time, puppets, other toys, and maybe bouncer or swing. then he falls asleep for nap time 3-4 hours or sleeps for about 4-5 hrs at night. I am running out of ideas of things I shd be doing with him and I think he is getting bored with me lol :/ I am a ftm! What are some things you do with ur lo?

Thank you ladies! I needed to hear that! I felt like I was doing something wrong! Everyone is telling me to keep him up, so he sleeps through the night bc they all had their babies sleeping through the night by a month! I thought I was being a horrible mommy... I really appreciate it!

Sleeping through the night for a newborn is technically 5 hours. If your LO is already sleeping 4-5 hours at night, they are sleeping through the night. Also, it's much much harder to get them to sleep at night if they are overly tired. Trying to keep a newborn awake when they want to sleep will only make it harder to put them down when you want to. Don't try to keep baby awake and try to get good naps in during the day, not letting them be awake for more than a couple of hours at a time. You will be more successful with healthy nighttime sleep habits this way.

A bath helps but expect to feed and nap after. But really they sleep like 16-20 hours a day and eat most of the rest of the time. Even if they wake up every hour and half to eat... Or my sons case every hour sometimes... Then I get a four hour break. Sleep when baby is sleeping...

I am a ftm too and I had the same feeling. The doc told me my lo needed his sleep! They are still growing and need to sleep! My lo is 7 weeks and didn't start staying awake until about 6 weeks. Even then he still slept "through" the night!